That’s how they found out the balls were not fully aired, interceptions, the balls didn’t feel right. Happened in the Colts/Patriots game in November, happened again in this last game.
What if Brady and Belichick said they’d take lie-detector tests? Interesting. May be the only way to plausibly lower suspicions if they are telling the truth. And I know the polygraph tests lack a lot to be desired.
That’s what I’d do if I didn’t do anything wrong and did not know anything about this.
That’s how they found out the balls were not fully aired, interceptions, the balls didn’t feel right. Happened in the Colts/Patriots game in November, happened again in this last game.
But head coach John Harbaugh said his team didn’t notice anything wrong with the pigskin in his team’s AFC divisional round loss to the Patriots on Jan. 10, adding that he believes the softness in the kicking balls was related to the weather that day.
“We did not notice anything,” Harbaugh told ESPN on Wednesday. “We never had a ball that they used or anything like that on offense, so we don’t know anything about that in our game. We didn’t have a chance to handle any of their offensive footballs.
“As far as the kicking balls, it was 20 degrees out, so the balls were softer,” Harbaugh said. “Our guys told us during the game, and I just chalked that up to the fact that it was cold and that both teams were kicking the same kicking balls, so I didn’t think really anything of it during the game. Other than that, it’s not something we’ve really given any thought to at all.”
The supposed incident where a defender caught an interception and gave the ball to the ref saying it felt low on air did not happen.
That defender has come forward and said that all he asked the ref was to give the ball to the equipment manager of his team so he could have it as a keepsake ball since it was His interception in a title game. He says someone in the media made the whole false background story up.
The only thing the Colts observed was kicking balls being not too taunt, typical in cold weather and the kicking balls are separate and the same for both teams unlike the “game balls”.